(This is an opinion piece meant to be an end to the series of articles Is Bungie’s Destiny falling apart? and The Devil’s Advocate: Bungie’s Destiny isn’t falling apart) Destiny. It is supposed to be Bungie’s 10 year project, a decade long endeavor to follow in the steps of their last great series that revolutionized gaming. For it to last the ...
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Is Bungie’s Destiny falling apart?
In just a couple of months, Bungie’s grand Destiny will become a year old, and in that time there will have been 2 DLC packs and a major expansion pack. By some accounts, Destiny is doing very well: players are consistently spending hours upon hours in the game, playing the endgame and PvP content to the point that they can ...
Read More »Is Destiny’s The Taken King Worth The Cost?
There’s been a whole lot of controversy surrounding Destiny’s new expansion, The Taken King. After a horrendous interview by Bungie employee Luke Smith (which he gave a public apology for), people both in and out of the fanbase were up in arms about the blatant disrespect for customers. Since then, many people have been using The Taken King as another ...
Read More »Destiny’s The Taken King expansion sparks price controversy
“If I fired up a video right now and showed you the emotes you would throw money at the screen.” Those are the words uttered by Luke Smith, the design lead for Destiny, during an interview with Eurogamer.net regarding the decision to have exclusive content in the upcoming expansion pack limited to those who buy the whole game, the prior ...
Read More »Destiny Introduces Connection Recovery Mechanic
If you’re like me, you’re a huge fan of Destiny. I’ve dumped hundreds of hours on it, and I’ve done so relatively uninterrupted. Unfortunately, there are loads of players that are plagued with connection issues on a daily basis. It’s not an uncommon occurrence for me to want to play Destiny with my friend, and have them be entirely unable ...
Read More »Destiny’s Prison of Elders: Details revealed for upcoming House of Wolves expansion
Bungie has revealed details in a live stream on the Prison of Elders content in the upcoming expansion House of Wolves. For fans who want more PvE content, Bungie is answering the call. The Prison of Elders is a series of arenas where you fight off against hordes of enemies. You will battle through four rounds of differing factions of ...
Read More »Destiny’s ‘House of Wolves’ DLC dated
Bungie sets the date for the second DLC for Destiny as May 19. You can watch the cinematic trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPg3jWn6Nn0 What’s even more interesting is that the ‘House of Wolves’ DLC will not have a Raid activity. Instead, there will be a new mode called ‘The Prison of Elders.’ In a post by Bungie, ‘The Prison of Elders’ will be ...
Read More »Bungie tweaks Destiny multiplayer
Get your guns ready Guardians, because Bungie’s Destiny gets a few changes to its multiplayer. Update 1.1.2 will bring quite a few changes to the sci-fi shooter. This week’s Weekly Update highlights tweaks to the PvP Crucible mode. In the past, Destiny players would have Special ammo loaded into their secondary weapons from the start of each match. Crucible Designer Kevin Yanes ...
Read More »Destiny will reportedly get its second major DLC pack in September
Bungie seem to want to keep Destiny around for a long time and have already planed a number of new DLC packs that will arrive later this year. Actually, one of them will apparently only be released much, much later this year in September. Needless to say, 2015 has only just begun so we’ll have to wait several more months before ...
Read More »Destiny Players Banned for Modded Consoles
Bungie confirmed that there was a recent purge of Destiny players banned for modded consoles. Bungie reported the news on their site Bungie.net. They refer to the instrument used to carry out bans as the, “Banhammer” and have most recently kicked out Destiny accounts who logged on through a modified console. Bungie advised players to only use the boxes that their “favorite ...
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